Friday, October 05, 2007

The Topic of Cancer

When actress Farrah Fawcett recently sought out “alternative” cancer treatment, she was greeted with predictable media scorn. For example, ABCNews.com (October 3) characterized such a choice as a “last-ditch attempt to find a cure, one that brings the patient into a murky world of offshore clinics and unproven courses of treatment that are scorned by the medical establishment.”

Almost 600,000 Americans die of cancer each year—roughly 1500 per day—and a new case is diagnosed every seven seconds. Yet, the Western medical priesthood stigmatizes alternatives and aggressively defends its Holy Trinity of cancer treatment: surgery, radiation, and of course, chemotherapy.

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